Antonin Artaud anthology
""I am the man," wrote Artaud, "who has best charted his inmost self." Antonin Artaud was a great poet who, like Poe, Holderlin, and Nerval, wanted to live in the infinite and asked that the human spirit burn in absolute freedom. To society, he was a madman. Artaud, however, was not insane but in luciferian pursuit of what society keeps hidden. The man who wrote Van Gogh the Man Suicided by Society raged against the insanity of social institutions with insight that proves more prescient with ev…
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- Full title :Antonin Artaud anthology / edited by Jack Hirschman.
Summary
""I am the man," wrote Artaud, "who has best charted his inmost self." Antonin Artaud was a great poet who, like Poe, Holderlin, and Nerval, wanted to live in the infinite and asked that the human spirit burn in absolute freedom. To society, he was a madman. Artaud, however, was not insane but in luciferian pursuit of what society keeps hidden. The man who wrote Van Gogh the Man Suicided by Society raged against the insanity of social institutions with insight that proves more prescient with every passing year. Today, as Artaud's vatic thunder still crashes above the "larval confusion" he despised, what is most striking in his writings is an extravagant lucidity. This collection gives us quintessential Artaud on the occult, magic, the theater, mind and body, the cosmos, rebellion, and revolution in its deepest sense."--BOOK JACTET.
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- Publication Date:©1965.
- Edition:2nd ed., rev
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):City Lights Books
- Place of Publication:San Francisco
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1965.
The Physical Object
- Description:253 pages : : illustrations, portraits ; : 21 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0872860000, 9780872860001
- oclc:ocm00227708
- LC Classification:PQ2601.R677
- Dewey Decimal:848.9
Table of Contents
Artaud chronology -- Part I: 1924-1937. Artaud-Rivière correspondence ; Here where others ; A great fervor ; Doctor ; Description of a physical state ; Thin belly ; There's an anguish ; I really felt ; An actor you can see ; Here is someone ; All writing is pigshit ; Fragments of a journal in hell ; Who in the heart ; Transparent Abelard ; In the light of the evidence ; On suicide ; Situation of the flesh ; Inquest: Is suicide a solution? ; General security: The liquidation of opium ; Address to the Dalai Lama ; No theogony ; It is the act which shapes the thought ; Concerning a journey to the land of the Tarahumaras ; The new revelations of being -- Photographs and drawings -- Part II: 1943-1948. Revolt against poetry ; To Adolph Hitler ; Shit to the spirit ; Letter against the Kabbala ; Letter on Lautréamont ; Coleridge the traitor ; Van Gogh: The man suicided by society ; Letter to Pierre Loeb ; Theatre and science ; Fragmentations ; The tale of the popocatepel ; Electroshock [fragments] ; The patients and the doctors ; Blood-winches [reality] ; Dear doctor and friend ; Here where I stand ; Seven poems [fragments] ; Workman's hand and monkey hand ; You have to begin with a will…
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